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Shown here are the general learning goals of the program broken down into specific student learning outcomes (SLOs). These SLOs represent what a student should be able to do as a result of successfully completing this program. Student performance on these outcomes are routinely assessed by program faculty as a way of informing programmatic improvement efforts.

Goal

Outcome

1. Students will acquire critical thinking and research skills, including various critical and theoretical approaches to analyzing texts

1.1 Students will conduct scholarly research on literary (or related) topics and will incorporate secondary source material into their written analysis using conventions in the discipline.

1.2 Students will demonstrate proficiency in applying critical and theoretical approaches to analyzing texts

1.3 Students will demonstrate proficiency in close reading skills

1.4 Students will produce thesis-driven essays that demonstrate understanding and analysis of texts.

2. Students will acquire foundational knowledge in the study of literature and language

2.1 Students will acquire foundational knowledge of a variety of authors from different eras, nationalities, and cultural backgrounds who create in a variety of genres.

2.2 Students will conduct scholarly research on literary (or related) topics and will incorporate secondary source material into their written analysis using conventions in the discipline.

2.3 Students will demonstrate proficiency in applying critical and theoretical approaches to analyzing texts

2.4 Students will demonstrate proficiency in close reading skills

2.5 Students will produce thesis-driven essays that demonstrate understanding and analysis of texts.

3. Students will write proficiently.

3.1 Students will conduct scholarly research on literary (or related) topics and will incorporate secondary source material into their written analysis using conventions in the discipline.

3.2 Students will demonstrate lucid, convincing, and discipline-informed written work

3.3 Students will produce thesis-driven essays that demonstrate understanding and analysis of texts.

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